A collection of some of Poe's best-known stories, best read in a dimly-lit room with the curtains drawn! A murderer's guilt haunts him in A tell-tale heart. The story of a brilliant revenge (The cask of Amontillado). The fall of the house of Usher shares its dark and ancient secrets. The horrors of the plague are revealed in The Masque of the red death. A lover descends into madness in The raven.